The joys of breakup

At lower latitudes, most folks might call this "spring thaw" or something like

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Chicago now sleeps where Pistol-Yero once did; the big thaw seems to have begun

When I was in India, I wrote about how Pistol-Yero would curl up and sleep right by my head each night. Chicago would normally sleep somewhere near my legs. Jimmy would tend to sleep right on top of me, although he would shift around a bit throughout the night.

I have been home for two nights now and everytime I have woken up, I have found my nose practically buried in Chicago's fur. With Pistol-Yero gone, she has moved to the head of the bed - right by my head.

Chicago never liked Pistol much. She would often hiss at him. Pistol seemed to enjoy that. In fact, he would often encourage her to hiss at him. She never figured that out.

Today, I had to put Pistol in Jacob and Lavina's freezer until we can get his grave dug, because we can't count on the weather to keep him frozen anymore.

That hurt.

It seems I must have brought some of that heat from India back to Wasilla with me. It is still fairly cool in the mornings when everything is frozen good and solid, but by late afternoon today the temperature had climbed to 38 F (3C). Snow was melting like crazy.

So it seems breakup is underway. Of course, it is still a little dangerous to say something like that. Next week, Wasilla could go right back into the deep freeze, where it seemed to be the whole time I was gone.

I kind of doubt that it will, but there have been past years when I kind of doubted and it did anyway.

There is no guarantee yet, but there are signs I might be able to make it back to the Arctic Slope soon. I can guarantee you that even though it will definitely be spring there, too, it will none-the-less be still be what most people in most places would call deep freeze.

It will be good to go back. Very good.

I hope it actually happens.

Now, it feels to me like the impact of my jet lag is getting worse, not better. I can hardly keep my eyes open. I can hardly type. It is only 10:30 PM, very early for me, but maybe I will go to bed soon. Then I will probably wake up at 2:30 AM or so.

That's what's been happening.

I think this blog will be a lazy blog for two or three or four more days to come, yet.